AFRINIC placed in receivership

Fri Sep 15 23:32:23 UTC 2023

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/international/1813989-the-strange-case-of-africas-stolen-ip-addresses

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Ernest+Byaruhanga+afrinic

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:30 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> > AFRINIC legitimately issued those (closer to 6M) IP addresses to Cloud
> Innovation based on justifications submitted. AFRINIC then attempted, using
> claims that usage out of region is not permitted by the bylaws
> (It is not prohibited by the bylaws, feel free to read them yourself), to
> reclaim those addresses.
>
> This is not what happened. AFRINIC issued those IP addresses to Cloud
> Innovations based on fundamental misrepresentations by the applicant and
> internal fraudulent activity conducted by a single employee within AFRINIC.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:17 PM Delong.com <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Sep 15, 2023, at 15:05, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A much better explanation of the situation can be found at:
>>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/nrs_afrinic_review/
>>
>> I also recommend that everyone who is not yet familiar with the issue
>> google Lu Heng and Cloud Innovations, the Hong Kong based corporate entity
>> in question which caused this.
>>
>>
>> Fair suggestion, but I wouldn’t say it’s fair to say Lu Heng or CI caused
>> this. I’d say that AFRINIC’s
>> leadership at the time had an at least equal role in creating the
>> problems and in failing to address
>> Them in a timely manner.
>>
>> CI didn’t sue AFRINIC for nothing. AFRINIC, in violation of the actual
>> text of their bylaws attempted
>> to revoke CI space and created major disruptions to a number of networks
>> in the process. Had CI
>> not received the injunctions they got from the courts, likely the
>> disruption would have been much
>> worse and caused some pretty wide-spread outages.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=lu+heng+cloud+innovation
>>
>> The short version of this is that a HK based corporate entity claims it
>> is the legitimate "owner" of 7 million AFRINIC IPs.
>>
>>
>> AFRINIC legitimately issued those (closer to 6M) IP addresses to Cloud
>> Innovation based on justifications submitted. AFRINIC then attempted, using
>> claims that usage out of region is not permitted by the bylaws
>> (It is not prohibited by the bylaws, feel free to read them yourself), to
>> reclaim those addresses.
>>
>> AFRINIC whois and the courts have confirmed that Cloud Innovation is the
>> rightful registrant of those
>> addresses at the time and as of now. Until a court rules otherwise (which
>> is very unlikely at this point),
>> they don’t “own” the addresses, but they do “own” the rights to those
>> registrations in the AFRINIC
>> database.
>>
>> (Nobody “owns” any integers… Everyone remains equally free to use the
>> number 5 as much as they want.)
>>
>> Owen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:09 AM Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/13/23 9:27 PM, Bryan Fields wrote:
>>> > I think this qualifies as potentially operational.
>>> >
>>> > Afrinic placed in receivership, board elections to be held in six
>>> months:
>>> > https://archive.ph/jOFE4
>>>
>>> Looks like archive.ph is having problems.  This is the original article.
>>>
>>> >
>>> https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2c6pnx4ymt7sd5c493wg0/news/exclusive-afrinic-placed-in-receivership-board-elections-to-be-held-in-six-months
>>> --
>>> Bryan Fields
>>>
>>> 727-409-1194 - Voice
>>> http://bryanfields.net
>>>
>>
>>
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